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I wasn't thinking of updating.

But I'm just bored.

Truly, sincerely bored.

It's 44 degree Celcius right now.

No, I'm not trolling.

The streets really do feel like an oven.

You know that feeling when you open an oven,

and hot air blows right at your face.

Well,

apply the same wind to your entire body

while you try to brace it and move forward.

I'm at the library.

I was SUPPOSED to do a module on my online course.

But guess what ?

Trashy public WiFi is trashy.

Even if it's the State Library.

It really depends on the mood of the network,

I guess.

Sometimes it's good,

sometimes it's not.

I guess today's just an unlucky day.

That or the heat blew the modem up.

It's a really different atmosphere.

The library, I mean.

Back when we had WACE,

you'd be lucky to find a table.

Study groups !

Study groups everywhere !

Of course,

we all know you don't join a study group to STUDY.

Try as you may,

the thirst for humans to crave interactions through endless talking cannot be easily quenched.

Now, the place is dead.

Well, actually there ARE still people.

80% (I'm not kidding) of them are Asian.

Doing work.

Wait, what kinda work ?

I'm curious.

It's still summer.

Or are they uni students ?

But they're having summer vacations too.

Studying up for IELTS perhaps.

Whatever... (read: I REALLY wanna know !)

Listening to Postcards - James Blunt

BURN BURN BURN BURN

TK

bucket.s for thought.s

According to Urban Dictionary,

a bucket list is :

A list of things to do before you die…

I think everyone should make/have one.
That way we won't have to put up with
"Oh such regrets" drama
on someone's hospital bed.

Also,
I think it's really fun to have.
Really fun to make.
And I guess
it stops us from being lazy and
wasting what little time we have.

I'm not sure if I'll even remember this list in ten years time.
But for now,
I just wanna have some fun.
Think about the infinite possibilities of my future.
And give myself some hopelessly impossible goals
before I wake up into reality. (read: 20s)

TK'S BUCKET LIST (as of 9th January 2014)

1. Get an apartment
2. Furnish said apartment with DIY stuff 
3. Do a Masters Degree
4. Get a job that doesn't involve fast food
5. Go on a cruise
6. Be able to afford a cuppa coffee every morning before work (like any other Aussie)
7. Have my barista remember my order
8. Learn how to make my own coffee
9. Propose…. or get proposed to (who knows)
10. Be able to walk down a busy street without being paranoid about myself
11. Learn a second third fourth language
12. Re-learn how to speak Cantonese again
13. Sit through a flight in First Class
14. Attend a Taylor Swift concert (subject to change)
15. Attend a OneRepublic concert (subject to change)
16. Attend an Owl City concert (subject to change)
17. Buy a legit album for myself
18. Cook my friends a meal. Me. Cook.
19. BUNGEE JUMPING ! (with someone)
20. Be a part of a flash mob
21. Actually enjoying a shopping spree
22. Give a $10 note to every performer on Murray St
23. Write a novel/short story/article
24. Visit the Great Barrier Reef
25. Go camping
26. Sponsor a child 
27. Volunteer willingly
28. Make a time capsule to my TYL self
29. Kiss in a car (you know you want to !)
30. Adopt (if possible) a pet. 
31. Learn to love my body
32. Accept constructive criticism for what it really is, a good thing.
33. Join the Colour Run (whatever that is..)
34. Attend a wedding from someone whom I thought would never invite me
35. Visit the tea shop/temple on Mt Hua Shan
36. Make peace with Dad
37. Confess instead of staying quiet and stalking
38. Skillfully use a ******
39. Go a week without Facebook (FAT CHANCE)
40. Dance in the rain
41. Reach the top of a monkey bar
42. Partake in a Japanese Tea Ceremony
43. Throw $20 worth of 5 and 10 cents into a wishing well
44. Collect mason jars
45. Learn to play the violin
46. Have a role in someone's wedding
47. Learn how to program stuff (*stuff)
48. Add a lock to the love lock bridge (even if I'm single)
49. Stay over at someone else's place for a whole week
50. Go to Vietnam and have lots of pho
51. Go to Vietnam and find those cute dragonfly hand crafty things
52. Safely transport said dragonflies home
53. Love someone more than myself
54. View Paris from the (highest possible) top of the Eiffel Tower
55. Have pizza in Italy
56. Notice there is a difference between pizza in Italy and pizza anywhere else
57. Get drunk (once)
58. Get a proper halloween costume
59. Try a new sport
60. Make a ********** ******
61. Sleep in an airport
62. Sleep in an overnight train
63. Visit an authentic sauna in Japan (#YOLO)
64. Sit down and talk to homeless people, then give them some money
65. Walk into a salon and confidently tell them what kinda hair style I want
66. Get a pinata
67. BREAK the pinata
68. Dip my face in food
69. See the Northern Aurora Lights
70. Enjoy my job
71. Visit the Sea of Stars at Maldives
72. Visit the Glowworm Caves in New Zealand
73. Be there for someone
74. Visit a salt lake
75. Write something that happened "today" for a year and keep it in a jar
76. Learn how to change a tyre
77. Secure enough money to get through retirement
78. Grow old happy
79. **** my *********** **** **** *****
80. Write up a will before it's too late
81. Stop judging everything around me
82. Experience any sort of natural disaster (No. Not THAT serious)
83. Build a snowman
84. Attend ***** ****
85. Sex (you know it's gonna happen eventually)
86. Kiss someone on New Years
87. Amass a shelf's worth of books
88. Find an AWESOME deal at the secondhand store
89. Actually become friends with my neighbour
90. Have my own collection of DIY Sharpie Mugs
91. Own a cute lil' bonsai
92. Be able to play a Grade 8 piece on the piano
93. Write ACTUAL letters to my friends
94. Go 30 hours without sleep
95. Go a day without food
96. Witness something that made my jaws drop
97. Laugh until I cry (harder to pull off with age)
98. Pay for someone's meal
99. Plant a tree and watch it grow
100. Win a lucky draw or any luck-based contest
101. Live in another country for at least a year
102. Sing in front of people
103. Fall asleep on grass
104. **** *** ** the ******
105. Sleepover without sleeping (at all)
106. Look back when I'm 60 and tell myself "I have no regrets."

This is it so far.

I'll update it slowly.

And hopefully,

before I end up on a hospital bed also,

I'll be able to look back and smile.

Listening to Picture To Burn - Taylor Swift

Busy busy,

TK

re - .res

Happy New Year guys !
Welcome to 2014.

And that's pretty much all I have to say for this update.
See.
I can do short posts too !

But wait...
New years wouldn't be complete.
Not without a review of my 2013 New Year Resolution...

(image taken from http://tools.blog.globalgiving.org/2013/12/11/2014-campaign-calendar-sneak-peek/)

Let's take a look shall we ?

• Achieve an ATAR of 80 or above....

Resolution Met.

In fact, 

I got 98.8 !

That's INSANE.

Didn't see that coming.

But I'm glad to see that my "hardwork" has paid off.

So now I'm off to uni.  =)

• Don't drink/smoke/do drugs...

Resolution...FAILED...

I bet you're surprised.

Don't worry.

I am too.

Broke this one by going to a club for the first time.

And it was in the middle of my WACE.

#WACECanWait

All I can say is,

I think I have low tolerance... *wink wink

• ...Coke is fine, though...

Great.

Looks like I got my priorities all messed up.

Because I actually made it through entire year

(well, since Lent anyway)

without any carbonated/fizzy drinks.

Just wish I could've said the same about alcohol...

• Get a job...

I THOUGHT I would.

But it looks like I totally crashed and burned out "studying".

Oh well.

NEXT YEAR ! 

For sure...

• Retain frienships...

Resolution Met.

Although I should've been more specific.

Well...hmm...

I'm not really sure about this one.

I really gave myself an ambiguous one there.

But at least I still Skype with people back home, right ?

That's gotta count !

• be happy =3

Once again.

Another ambiguous, open resolution.

But hey,

life's too short to stay moody or sad.

And just imagine all those people who're less fortunate.

I'd say this year's made me fairly happy.

My results made me really happy though,

sooo....

RESOLUTION MET.

I guess I'm quite satisfied.

I've met most of my resolutions.

Time for some new ones...

• Get good grades in my first year at Uni (keeping my options open for post-grads)
• GET A JOB (seriously)
• Don't get drunk (just imagine all those secrets stored safe in my head !)
• Actually finish reading all the novels I have ! 
• Make new friends in Uni (oh gawd that sounds scary already....)
• Retain friendships (all of them, some from home, some from Selangor, some from this year...)
• be happy =3 -er than this year (because we should always try to smile more often) 
• Get at least 100 blog posts out before 1/1/2015
• Try more new things (you won't have enough time when you're all grown up)

I think that should suffice.

Now normally I'd do what I did last year :

list out songs that've been of a significance to me this year.

Sadly,

I can't really recall any 

because I've been stuck in libraries for the entire year.

And any song that I like has been listened to 100 times

while I was there.

But I'll try to name some anyway.

• Love Like War - All Time Low
• Best Night - Justice Crew
• Somewhere Only We Know - Cover by Michelle Chamuel
• We Come Running - Youngblood Hawke
• Lakehouse - Of Monsters and Men
• Something I Need - OneRepublic
• Life In Color - OneRepublic
• All American Boy - Steve Grand
• Demons - Imagine Dragons
• Story of My Life - One Direction
• Closer - Tegan and Sara
• Angels - Owl City
• Woman I Love - Jason Mraz
• Change - Taylor Swift
• Homeward Bound/HOME - Glee Cast
• Dementia - Owl City
• It's A Beautiful Day - Michael Buble
• The Last Time - Taylor Swift ft. Gary Lightbody
• Test Drive - How To Train Your Dragon OST

That's...quite a long list.

Looks like I really went all out with my music this year.

Well, I had to.

It made my endless hours at the library not-so-endless.

Well,

that's it from me.

And yes,

I do realize I've made this short post...long...

But hey !

It's the New Years.

And New Years wouldn't be complete

without a long post...

I'll stop here...

See you guys next time !

Listening to Borrow My Heart - Taylor Henderson

New Year, New Beginnings.

TK